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syntax: markdown
tags: [tldr, common]
source: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr.git
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# scrapy
> Web-crawling framework.
> More information: <https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/commands.html#using-the-scrapy-tool>.
- Create a project:
`scrapy startproject {{project_name}}`
- Create a spider (in project directory):
`scrapy genspider {{spider_name}} {{website_domain}}`
- Edit spider (in project directory):
`scrapy edit {{spider_name}}`
- Run spider (in project directory):
`scrapy crawl {{spider_name}}`
- Fetch a webpage as Scrapy sees it and print the source to `stdout`:
`scrapy fetch {{url}}`
- Open a webpage in the default browser as Scrapy sees it (disable JavaScript for extra fidelity):
`scrapy view {{url}}`
- Open Scrapy shell for URL, which allows interaction with the page source in a Python shell (or IPython if available):
`scrapy shell {{url}}`